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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
Last month, we checked the accuracy of the M&P9 "endurance test" gun after the pistol was returned from S&W's SHOT Show Booth. The result was about one inch greater group size than before the slide developed the crack which ended our test.
As promised -- though a bit belated -- we ...
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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
As we reported in December, the M&P Endurance Test ended at 62,333 rounds ... 12,333 rounds more than originally planned. Smith & Wesson proudly had the test pistol on display at their 2009 SHOT Show booth.
But even though the slide developed a crack, we promised a follow up to check ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
As we reported on Monday, the M&P9 endurance test gun -- pictured left, brand new still in its box back in April -- finally cracked its slide at 62,333 rounds. While the gun continued to run without any stoppages, Smith & Wesson asked that we send the pistol to them ...
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Monday, December 8th, 2008
62,333 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 3 parts breakages
As you could tell, we didn't get an "M&P Monday" posted last week due to the holidays. How do the Gods of War punish us for this?
Yes, that's a crack in the slide. The pistol started to feel slightly different in recoil, a little "snappy" ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
62,074 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
Over 3,100 rounds fired in Week 31 with no stoppages, malfunctions, or breakages. In fact, remember last week when we said we were going to strip the gun apart and perform maintenance? Didn't happen. We did squirt a bit of Militec-1 on the ...
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
58,970 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
As promised, this week we got back on track with the heavy-duty shooting schedule ... almost 2,600 rounds! Luckily, as you can see pictured at right, the latest shipment of ammunition for the test arrived just in time!
Not that it should surprise anyone at ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
56,383 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
As we told you last time, this past week involved no shooting of the M&P9 Torture Test gun. Therefore, there isn't a whole lot to report.
I personally carried the gun while driving over 2,200 miles in five days. It rode in one of ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
56,383 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
While the M&P test was slow this week, things certainly weren't slow for S&W. They sold 7,500 M&P9 pistols to the Iraqi Military & Security Forces. We can only assume it was based on the things they read here at pistol-training.com ... right?
Finally, after ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
54,880 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
This past week was quite mundane: a few range sessions with nothing unusual to report. A little over 1,600 rounds were fired with no problems.
Hopefully, this week we'll put the finishing touches on the pistol-training.com limited edition S&W M&P9. More info on that will ...
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Monday, October 20th, 2008
53,227 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
As we proudly announced last week, the M&P test continues! In fact, this week was quite a busy one.
I attended the outstanding Concealed & Off-Duty Pistol Class put on by David Pennington in South Hill, Virginia. As you can see if you follow the ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
50,343 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
Bullet #50,000 recovered from M&P Torture Test
On Friday 10-October 2008, Smith & Wesson's Senior Vice President Leland Nichols fired round #50,000 at the Smith & Wesson Academy (pictured left). If Leland looks like he knows what he's doing behind a pistol, that's because he ...
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Monday, October 6th, 2008
47,618 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
We're fast approaching the end of the M&P 50,000 Round Torture Test, and it looks like we'll actually finish a little ahead of schedule. Nothing particularly exciting to report about this week, except that the ammo fairy dropped over 2,500 rounds of Speer 124gr ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
45,164 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 2 parts breakages
Week 23 will have to be remembered as The Week Stuff Broke. I guess putting more than 3,500 rounds in a week through a gun that's been shot as much (and maintained as little) as the M&P Torture Test gun can do that.
First, as you may have ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
41,659 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 1 parts breakage
As promised, we had a special guest star fire round #40,000 through the test gun. Here is the picture:
Thanks very much to our good friend Julie Golob (nee Goloski) of Smith & Wesson. If you've been living under a rock and don't know ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
39,999 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 1 parts breakage
What a busy week! Sorry for the day late post. I was in Canada yesterday. 8)
The test gun went on its first international trip. pistol-training.com held an Aim Fast, Hit Fast class in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Thanks to RobE and some of the other ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
38,736 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 1 parts breakage
All good things, as they say ...
During Week 20, we had the first parts breakage on the test gun. At round 37,427 the trigger spring broke. The gun still fired, but the shooter had to push the trigger forward manually for each shot.
The gun had not ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
35,731 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 0 parts breakages
Schedules collided this week and not quite as much shooting was accomplished. Nonetheless, the gun continues to chug along and is now well over 35,000 rounds. Still not a single stoppage since the suspected maintenance error thirteen weeks and twenty-five thousand rounds ago.
With so ...
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
34,529 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 0 parts breakages
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
32,265 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 0 parts breakages
As promised, this week includes the fourth accuracy test which was performed at about the 31,000 round point. All results are based on the average of five 5-shot groups fired by hand using a Delta rest as support. Range is 25 yards.
Federal 124gr +p ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
31,049 rounds
2 stoppages, 0 malfunctions, 0 parts breakages
Thirty thousand rounds has come and gone. And to commemorate the event, Smith & Wesson's own Ernest Langdon volunteered to drive out to the range just to get his picture taken firing that one shot.
The appendix Looper holster from Custom Carry Concepts is working ...
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